Aircraft Quotes - Page 6

• Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

  Hunter Lovins

  Kids, Feet, Car

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• My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mother, Father, Home

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Real, Men

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• This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

  Stephen Coonts

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Intruders". Book by Stephen Coonts, 1994.

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• From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

  Frank Herman Schofield

  Military, Today, Flight

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• I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

  Wesley Clark

  Patriotic, Thinking, America

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• We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Fighting, Iraq

  Source: time.com

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• I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

  Abdus Salam

  Training, Doe, Nuclear Reactors

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• If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Military, Moving

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Years, Cinema, San Diego

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• I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.

  Vladimir Putin

  Oil, Space, Hands

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We have good joint projects in the helicopter and aircraft manufacturing industry. We are considering cooperation and are actively cooperating in space. There are good prospects there [with China].

  Vladimir Putin

  Space, Joints, Cooperation

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We will build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft, which the Heritage Foundation again has shown to be needed to execute current missions. We now have 1,113. Not enough. We will also seek to develop a state-of-the-art missile defense system.

  Donald Trump

  Art, Air, Foundation

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Army, Isis

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Believe, Air, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

  Connie Kalitta

  Hobbies, Used

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Balloons, Weapons

  Paul Virilio (1989). “War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception”, p.3, Verso

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• The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Aircraft Carriers, Knows

  "The people versus the powerful" by Philip James, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2004.

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• The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

  Vladimir Putin

  Air, East, Aviation

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Russia, Ukraine, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Iraq, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

  Robert Kennedy

  Military, War, Book

  Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

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